UCHIHA JOURNEY TO MULTIVERSE

[[ TIME SKIP :- AFTER 12 YEARS]]

The morning sun was still weak when Minato's eyes opened. The first thing he felt was the strange coldness in his chest. His breathing felt different. Wrong somehow.

Kushina stirred beside him. Her red hair caught the light from the window. She sat up slowly, looking around the small hospital room.

"Where are we?" she asked quietly.

Minato looked at his hands. They were pale, too pale. "Something happened to us. I remember... the Nine-Tails. The sealing."

"We died," Kushina said. Her voice was flat, like she was stating a simple fact.

"But we're here now."

Outside their room, voices drifted through the thin walls. A nurse was talking to someone.

"That demon child is getting worse," the nurse said. "Always causing trouble. Poor Fourth Hokage is in coma because of that monster."

Minato's eyes went wide. Kushina grabbed his arm.

"They're talking about Naruto," she whispered.

The nurse continued talking entering room "I don't know why we have to take care of him. The whole village would be better off if he just disappeared."

Minato felt anger building in his chest. But it was different from normal anger. Colder.

"We need to see what's happening," he said in his heart.

Kushina nodded. "Something is very wrong here."

" Shadow clone jutsu! "

In hospital bed , same figure were lying and show clone moved in shadow and minato shadow clone disappeared from room.

They got up quietly. Their hospital clothes felt strange on their skin. Everything felt wrong.

For the next week, there shadow clone watched. They listened. They learned.

The hospital staff barely fed anything to them.

When they brought him food, it was often expired or cold. His room was small and dirty. No toys. No books. Nothing.

"He suffered enough for 12 years but not now minato! ," Kushina whispered one night. Tears ran down her face.

During the day, they watched him in crowd , with shadow clone as Naruto walked through the village. People threw stones at him. Shop owners slammed doors in his face. Children ran away screaming.

Minato wrote down every name. Every shop. Every person who hurt his son.

"We're going to make them pay," he said quietly.

Kushina looked at her husband. His eyes were different now. Harder.

"All of them," she agreed.

On the seventh night, they decided to act. They slipped out of their room and walked to Naruto's small apartment.

The door was unlocked. Inside, it was dark and cold. Naruto was sleeping on a thin mattress on the floor. Empty ramen cups were scattered around the room. The expired kind that made people sick.

"My baby," Kushina whispered.

Naruto's eyes opened. When he saw two dark figures standing over him, he scrambled backward.

"Please don't hurt me," he said. His voice was small and scared. "I didn't do anything wrong."

Minato knelt down. In the moonlight, his yellow hair was visible.

"Naruto," he said softly. "We're not here to hurt you."

Kushina sat beside Minato. Her red hair fell around her shoulders.

"We're your parents," she said.

Naruto stared at them. His blue eyes were wide.

"My... parents?"

"Yes," Minato said. "We came back for you."

Naruto started crying. But he moved closer to them and even felt they were saying truth.

"I missed you," he said. "I didn't even know what you looked like."

Kushina pulled him into her arms. "We're so sorry, Naruto. We're going to take you away from here."

"Where will we go?" Naruto asked.

Minato looked out the window at the village that had hurt his son.

"Somewhere safe," he said. "Somewhere they can never hurt you again."

They left that night. No one saw them go.

After that, whole konoha village was in chaos, third Hokage and Danzo and other advisor it's look like minato couple awakend and saw village treatment and left the village.

As they walked away with space jutsu from Konoha, Naruto held both their hands.

"I'm going to miss the Third Hokage," he said. "He was nice to me. He gave me money sometimes. And he cared about me."

Kushina's grip tightened on his hand. "That old man used you, Naruto. He let everyone else hurt you while pretending to care."

"But he was nice," Naruto said quietly.

"Nice people don't let children get hurt," Minato said. His voice was cold.

They walked through the forest in silence for a while.

Far away, in the Lightning Village, a different conversation was happening.

Mali sat across from the Raikage in a large meeting room. Maps covered the table between them.

"So you're sure about this plan?" the Raikage asked.

Mali and raikage has exchange resources, as mali kand can now cultivate and grow crops now, the friendship was best thing raikage thought, even villager ninja are now traning in their village, Uchiha who were battle maniac now we're pursuing immortality of qi and training they are now perfectly sync with peaceful surrounding, whole Uchiha follow Uchiha mali.

Mali nodded. "The Chunin Exams are perfect. Konoha will be busy with visitors. Besides the Konoha and Sand teams, orchimaru is going to kill them, it's nice opportunity! ."

"What about the other big villages?"

"Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure usually don't participate," Mali said. "That works for us."

The Raikage leaned forward. "Tell me about this Orochimaru."

"He's going to attack during the exams," Mali explained. "While everyone is fighting him, we grab the bloodline users and attack the Fire Nation nobles to plunder resources from them. "

"How much can we steal?"

Mali smiled. "A lot. I have fifty large space storage scrolls ready."

The Raikage looked embarrassed. "We only have thirty or forty."

"That's enough," Mali said. "Between us, we can take everything valuable."

The Raikage stood up and extended his hand. "Partners then."

Mali shook it. "Partners."

They spent the rest of the night planning. Routes in and out of the Fire Nation. Which nobles had the most money. How to divide the stolen bloodline users.

Meanwhile, Minato, Kushina, and Naruto had stopped to rest by a small stream.

"Are you really my parents?" Naruto asked again.

"Yes," Kushina said. She brushed his hair out of his eyes. "You look just like your father."

"And you have my stubborn personality," Minato added with a small smile.

Naruto grinned. It was the first real smile he'd had in years.

"Where are we going to live?"

"We'll find somewhere," Kushina said. "Somewhere no one knows us."

"Will people be nice to me there?"

Minato's expression darkened again. "If they're not, they'll regret it."

Naruto didn't understand the coldness in his father's voice. But he felt safe between his parents for the first time in his life.

"I love you," he said quietly.

Kushina started crying again. "We love you too, Naruto. More than anything."

They sat by the stream until morning, just being a family.

Back in the Lightning Village, Mali was finalizing plans with his commanders.

"The attack on the nobles happens while Orochimaru attacks Konoha," he said. "We hit fast, take everything, and disappear."

"What about Uchiha?" one commander asked.

"No need to meet, of they come , just kill," Mali said simply.

The room fell quiet.

" What bloodline users we capture?"

" Hyuga clan, kurama clan, and other ninja clan , we will ask for money after kidnapping them, "

Mali looked at each of his commanders. "Any questions?"

No one spoke.

"Good. We leave in two weeks."

As the meeting ended, Mali thought about his secret Mangekyo Sharingan. Soon, he might need to use it. But not yet. His current plan was working too well to reveal all his cards.

The next morning, Naruto woke up between his parents. For a moment, he thought he was dreaming. But they were really there.

"Good morning," Kushina said softly.

"Is this real?" Naruto asked.

"Very real," Minato said.

They walked for three more days. Naruto told them about his life in Konoha. Every story made his parents angrier.

"The villagers threw rocks at me," he said. "But the Third Hokage told me they were just scared."

"Scared of a five-year-old?" Kushina's voice was sharp.

"He said I had something inside me that made them afraid."

Minato and Kushina exchanged looks over his head.

"You're not a monster, Naruto," Minato said. "You're our son. And you're perfect."

Naruto smiled up at him. "Really?"

"Really."

After leaving fire kingdom, They found a small town far from any ninja villages.

The people there didn't know who they were. Didn't know about the Nine-Tails. Didn't know about the Fourth Hokage.

"We can start over here," Kushina said.

Minato nodded. But his eyes still held that cold anger.

"For now," he said quietly.

Naruto didn't hear the promise of revenge in his father's voice. He was too busy being happy.

For the first time in his life, he had a family.